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>Even if humans make more mistakes than the AI, telling our customer it was a human error is much easier for our customers to accept than telling them it was a program error withou…

This. This is strictly more accurate than the above comment. It has nothing to do with accuracy or the repetitiveness of the mistake. It has to do with managers preferring to make …

Huh? In my experience, people who make a mistake tend to make the same mistake again and again. Whereas, when a machine makes that mistake, somebody fixes the bug and it doesn't ha…

This. A huge amount of stuff can and should be automated by mundane programming. Since that hasn't been done yet, AI isn't about to automate all of the stuff that shouldn't be auto…

AI is useful for business, and it's used in business. Hiring people to do menial mental tasks that would be particularly easy to automate is cheap. Hiring programmers and AI develo…

Automated testing is a generically good technique for many things including forcing yourself to have a better API. Code sometimes has to be refactored to make it more testable, and…

Writing code is fun, but being a software developer has been a depressing occupation for me at most of the places I've worked. I'm pretty sure it's because I dread the follow up wo…